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Silver City Sun-News

Posted:
11/20/2013 04:30:38 PM MST

Thursday

Silver City Food Co-op's Fall Member Appreciation Day: All day Thursday at the Co-Op, 520 N. Bullard St. Members save 10 percent in the store. New members can join and receive full membership benefits. Enter drawings for prizes, taste delicious sample foods and join the fun at your community market.

Skill Up on Computers: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave. This computer training course offers participants will be introduced to an online, self-paced tutorial, KeyTrain, which helps job-seekers identify and enhance the work skills that employers are looking for. Free. Register 575-527-8799 ext. 110.

Newcomers Club of Grant County Thanksgiving Meeting: 11 a.m. Thursday, Elk's Lodge #413. 4051 Highway 90 and Ridge Rd. Looking for new arrivals to the area, as well as those who are long-standing members of the community. Speakers will discuss various topics during luncheons. Lunch $10. Info: Linda Sylvester 480-518-5839, lindasylvester@msn.com

Skill Up on Computers: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave. This computer training course offers participants will be introduced to an online, self-paced tutorial, KeyTrain, which helps job-seekers identify and enhance the work skills that employers are looking for. Free. Register 575-527-8799 ext. 110.

Fitness & Nutrition in the Community: 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Grant County Community Health Council office, 214 N. Black St. (next to the Courthouse, corner of Black and Yankie St.). Find out what is your community doing to be a healthier place at this community action group meeting. Recently took the BMIs of school children to see if the ban on junk food in school has been successful. Find out their next projects including Prescription Trails in partnership with the Grant County Trails Group.

Book Signing - "Yellowstone Has Teeth": 5 p.m. Thursday, Author, Marjane Ambler recounts how she lived in Yellowstone for nine years, a place where buying a loaf of bread required a 30-mile snowmobile trek.

Building Community in a Hostile Environment: 6 p.m. WNMU's J. Cloyd Miller Library. A panel discusses how they overcame difficult challenges in the environment, at home, or in providing services to the community. Potluck dinner follows forum. Info: 505-717-4330

Skill Up on Computers: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Silver City Public Library, 515 W. College Ave. This computer training course offers participants will be introduced to an online, self-paced tutorial, KeyTrain, which helps job-seekers identify and enhance the work skills that employers are looking for. Free. Register 575-527-8799 ext. 110.

Skill Up on Computers: 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Silver City Public Library. 515 W. College Ave. This computer training course offers participants will be introduced to an online, self-paced tutorial, KeyTrain, which helps job-seekers identify and enhance the work skills that employers are looking for. Free. Register 575-527-8799 ext 110.

La Clinica Open House: 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday, 3201 Ridge Loop (corner of 32nd St. and Ridge Loop, up the hill from the Hospital). Shauna McCorsh, CNM, FNP, invites you to come tour the new facility of La Clinica Health & Birth Center for Women and Children. Enjoy refreshments, meet the staff and ask questions. Info: 575-388-4251.

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